Actually there are lot of other action blocks which I have added earlier works fine. I tried changing the names(value) of the path attribute for this option. Everytime it throws the same error. It does not reach the Action class (com.xyz.reports.CountryWiseInputAction in my case) mentioned in the type attribute at all. No idea whats going wrong here.

I got it resolved. The struts-config.xml in the remote machine was not reflecting the changes after the build and deployment (UNIX server). It was looking up at a different (struts-config)file in the server. It did work locally. I rectified that and its working now.